Company Run

This is a team event using the Minimarathon course. It is enough to find a trio of determined runners who resolve to do their best in their company’s colours to get the best combined total of their individual times.

Kosice Peace Marathon organizers welcome you in Košice at the Europe´s Oldest Marathon.
Please carefully read the following instructions which will help you to become familiar with the different situations on the day of the race. The race is held under the proposals for year 2017 distributed by the organizer.

PRESENTATION AND COLLECTING OF WELCOME BAGS

Bib numbers not picked up by participants by Saturday, 6:00 p.m., will be sold further.
On race day (i.e. October 1, 2017) it is not possible to register or pick up the BIB number!

START

October 1, 2017 (Sunday) o 09:10 AM

Marathon Centre, Hlavná street

FINISH

Marathon Centre, Hlavná street

TIMING AND START NUMBER

The sum of the finish times of all three members of the team decides the final order of the teams at the finish. Participants in Company Run will receive one start number with integrated non-returnable chip. The start number must be placed visibly on the chest.
The Chip cannot be replaced and the neoprene pad cannot be removed. YOUR TIME WILL NOT BE MEASURED WITHOUT THE CHIP.

TRANSPORTATION TO START

Public transport is on Sunday (October 1) free of charge for the KPM participants upon display of the bib number.

CLOAK ROOMS

Cloak rooms are located at the school SOŠ J. Szakkayho, Grešákova street, on October 1, 2017 (Sunday) from 7:00 to 11:00 AM. The competitor will place his belongings into a plastic bag kept properly marked with a bib number and the personnel will place the plastic bag to a reserved place. After the race, the runners can take his belongings upon display of his bib number. Do not leave in cloak rooms any valuables. Organizers are not responsible for any lost or stolen belongings.

ON THE RACE DAY

07:00 h – gathering of runners, preparing for run

08:00 h – warm – up with music and intructors, in the area at Grešákova street

08:50 h – gathering of runners

08:50 h – Start of Inline, Handbike and Wheelchairs

08:55 h – all runners are moving together through Štúrova street near Dargov shopping centre to the start area

09:00 h – Start of Kosice Peace Marathon

09:05 h – Entering the start area

09:10 h – START of U.S.STEEL FAMILY RUN – MINIMARATHON AND COMPANY RUN

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

After the start, all Minimarathon runners run along both sides of Hlavna street. They cross the Peace Marathon Place tn the west side of the street – past the marathon runner statue, then they continue along the west side of the Komenského street until the turn point – Vysokoškolska street. After crossing the turn point, all runners continue along the east side of the Komenskeho street. Runners continue along the east side of Hlavna street, then before the winners stage they cross the finish line at the west side. After 10:00 AM all Minimarathon runners must remain on the left side of the course, in case of meeting with cars and elite runners. When the runners cross the finish line, pick up their refreshement and medal, they immediately leave the finish area through Sturova street – near Dargov shopping centre.

MEDICAL CARE

Medical care standpoints are located in the Start and Finish area as well as at kms 1 and 3.

AWARD CEREMONY

To the first three teans will be awarded a price.
The award ceremony will be held in a start / finish area, Hlavna street, in front of the VIP tribune at 09:45 AM

WARNING

All participants must respect the instructions of referees, track marshals and organizers

During the race is forbidden to listen to music and to wear headphones from safety reasons.

All participants start on their own risk

ADJUST YOUR PACE TO YOUR PHYISICAL CONDITION AND ABILITY!

We wish you a pleasant and successful Marathon weekend in Košice.

START: 1st October 2017 (Sunday),

Kosice, Marathon Centre, Hlavná street 1

FINISH

Kosice, Marathon Centre, Hlavná street 1

AGE LIMIT

18 years (born 1999 and before)

REGISTRATION

Participants register to the Kosice Peace Marathon through On-line registration. The Organizer reserves the right, also during the time when Registration is going on, to set a limit on the number of registered participants, for reasons of capacity, safety, logistics or other reasons, as well as the right to terminate Registration at any time or to change the date of its completion. (see General Conditons)

CATEGORIES

Three member teams without age categories.

PRIZES

Prizes will be awarded to the first 3 teams, on condition that at least three competitors have started in the given category.

MEASUREMENT OF TIMES

The techonology used for time measurements is the MYLAPS BibTag. The official time is measured from the firing of the starting pistol to the crossing of the finish line. This time decides the final order of runners at the finish.

PROTESTS

Protests, regarding the results and situations arising during the race, have to be made verbally to the main referee no later than 15 minutes after the announcement of the results. Protests against the decision of the main referee heve to be made in writing in the race office, no later than 30 minutes after the announcement of the decision of the main referee, upon payment of 10,- EUR.

INSURANCE

All participants are under obligation to arrange their own individual medical insurance for this event. The Organizer cannot be held responsible for any damage to property or health incurred during competitors’ travel, stay or participation in the event. It is the responsibility of each participant to arrange and undergo an appropriate health check-up and to obtain proper information regarding his/her state of health in connection with his/her decision to take part in any of the KPM disciplines. Each Kosice Peace Marathon participant takes part in the event at their own risk.

ORGANIZER

RULES

All events organized by Marathon Club Kosice are held in accordance with IAAF athletics competition rules, the Slovak Athletics Association competition code, and the provisions of these propositions. Participation in the Kosice Peace Marathon is subject to the General Conditions.

FURTHER IMPORTANT WARNINGS

All participants must respect the instructions of referees, track marshals and organizers!

Participants can register only for one chosen discipline of the Event. Participation in more than one discipline within the Event is not allowed.

A competitor running with a bib number of another runner will be disqualified and both competitors will be banned from the Kosice Peace Marathon in the future.

Accompaniment of Participants by other persons on the course of event on bicycles or on other vehicles is prohibited and can result in disqualification of thus accompanied participant. Only persons accredited by the Organizer may move on the course by bicycles with the purpose of fulfilment of tasks defined by the Organizer.

During the race is forbidden to listen to music and to wear headphones from safety reasons.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This inner-city circuit is based on the original course set up for the World Half-marathon Championships in 1997. There are no prominent uphill sections, and the streets are fully asphalt surfaced. The marathon course consists of two laps, while the half-marathon runners complete just one. Both of these basic disciplines have been granted an IAAF / AIMS certificate for their course. The other accompanying races are held over parts of this circuit, and their measured and published distances do not require certification.

COURSE MAP

COURSE ELEVATION PROFILE

All the fast marathon courses must have couple of positive parameters. Besides very few direction changes or sharp turns it is of course the elevation profile. In Košice there is a course meeting the most challenging criteria. In Berlin where plenty of world records have been set up there are 21 direction changes on the course in the angle equal 90˚or even sharper. In Košice the number of such direction changes on the full marathon course is the same low.
If we have a closer look to its elevation profile we will find out that difference between the lowest point on this Košice city circuit and its peak is only 16,35 m (200,7 m above sea level – 217,05 m a.s.l.). The cumulative elevation gain on the marathon course is then 74 meters.
For your information in Berlin the difference between lowest and highest point is 25,6 m (cumulative elevation gain 37 m) and in Boston 146,3m (cumulative elevation gain 241 m).

ENTRY FEES FOR COMPANY RUN

Payment date

Company Run

by 31st August

10 EUR / person

after 31st August

10 EUR / person

WHAT DOES THE ENTRY FEE GET YOU?A welcoming package and these basic guaranteed services:

T-shirt with Minimarathon graphics

Start number

Free public transport

Medal for reaching the finish

Changing rooms

Medical services around course and at finish

Refreshments and services in finish area

On-line participant’s diploma

Information service – event info sent to participant’s e-mail address

Participants can order additional products and services through on-line registration.

PAYMENT OF ENTRY FEE

The ON-LINE registration for the Kosice Peace Marathon becomes valid only after payment of the entry fee, which must be paid at the same time as your registration.

Any application which is not followed by payment credited to the Organizer’s bank account is incomplete and will be considered by the Organizer as invalid. The Organizer then decides whether to keep such an application in the records and continue in communication with the applicant (see General Conditions).

HOW TO PAY THE ENTRY FEE

Payment card – at the same time as your registration.
Recommended payment method, which is almost instantely matched with your application.

Bank transfer
Payment will be matched with the application only after it is credited to the Organizer’s account

If one bank transfer is to be used to pay entry fees for several participants at once, the Organizer must be informed of this in advance by e-mail (info@kosicemarathon.com). The e-mail must include the names of all the participants whose entry fees are being paid and the variable symbol of the payment.

If payment is made by bank transfer which does not include the correct variable symbol, it will not be possible to identify the payment, and no payment will be matched with the participant’s application for registration.

CHECKING THE REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT

Registration and receipt of the entry fee payment can be checked by logging into the competitor’s account in the on-line registration section of our website.

The Organizer cannot be held responsible for incorrectly entered details either in your application or in your entry fee payment instructions!